The Athlete Next Door Has a Secret

Novel title: The Secret of the Athlete Next Door Song Chen of Class 3, Grade 11, is famous around school as a “little troublemaker.” He zones out in class, puts off his homework, and sometimes even walks into a lamppost in the hallway. His one real talent is spotting beautiful things. Like the sweaty figure running laps on the track one sunny afternoon. Or the three neat, powerful characters at the top of a leaderboard: Song Chen. From that day on, Xia Zhi has a secret mission for her youth: Write “I like Song Chen” on the inside cover of every notebook; Write “Song Chen smiled today” in her diary every day. She bursts into his calm, top-student world like a piece of popping candy. The once-dull formulas and tricky problems all become lively and fun with one person around. A sweet campus romance about an energetic girl chasing after a sunny, athletic top student. No melodramatic misunderstandings, just the everyday thrill of two people falling for each other. Song Shen's life used to run like clockwork: Training, studying, coming in first, and occasionally fending off admirers. He is a model student in his teachers' eyes, an undefeated champion on the sports field, and the school heartthrob everyone calls “perfect, without a single flaw.” Unruffled and always first, he nevertheless keeps everyone at an almost imperceptible distance. Then Xia Zhi crashes into his world without warning, like a runaway little sun. Her out-of-nowhere declaration in front of the leaderboard, “I'm going to be your future girlfriend,” throws his whole routine off. Now he has a new problem to solve: how to spoil the little firecracker who keeps chasing him until she becomes his very own princess.